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- Code Number:
- MYND01_083
- Title:
- Telephones, Phones, Telecom, USS Higgins (DDG-76), Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer
- Length: 505 feet (154 m) (Flights I and II)
509 feet (155 m) (Flight IIA)
Beam: 59 feet (18 m)
Draft: 30.5 feet (9.3 m)
Propulsion
and power: 4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines;
two shafts,
100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW)
Speed: 30+ knots (56+ km/h)
Range: 4,400 nautical miles (8,100 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement: 23 officers, 300 enlisted
Armament: ? 90 cells Mk 41 vertical launch systems
? BGM-109 Tomahawk
? RGM-84 Harpoon SSM (not in Flight IIa units)
? SM-2 Standard SAM (has an ASuW mode)
? RIM-162 ESSM SAM (DDG-79 onward)
? RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC
? one 5 inch (127 mm/54) Mk-45 (lightweight gun) (DDG-51 through -80)
? one 5 inch (127 mm/62) Mk-45 mod 4 (lightweight gun) (DDG-81 on)
? two 20 mm Phalanx CIWS (DDG-51 through -83, several later units)
? two Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes (six Mk-46 or Mk-50 torpedoes, Mk-54 in the near future)
Aircraft carried: ? None, but LAMPS III electronics installed on landing deck for coordinated DDG-51/helo ASW operations (Flights I and II)
? two SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helos (Flight IIA) - Keywords:
- Image by:
- Wernher Krutein
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